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A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year

A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This meditation collection will provide an opportunity to celebrate and re-evaluate Emerson's contribution to America's spiritual history.
A Call to Prayer

A Call to Prayer

J. C. Ryle

John Charles Ryle (1816-1900), was an Anglican bishop of Liverpool and supporter of Evangelicalism. He is best known today for sermons like The Cross: A Call to the Fundamentals of Religion and A Call to Prayer.
Emerson

Emerson

Lawrence BUELL

Social Thought and Reform: Emerson and Abolition Emerson lived during a time of intense national growing pains. U.S. territory expanded, its population grew, and governmental institutions changed more wrenchingly during his working life  ...
Emerson's Transcendental Etudes

Emerson's Transcendental Etudes

Stanley Cavell

This book is Stanley Cavell_s definitive expression on Emerson. Over the past thirty years, Cavell has demonstrated that he is the most emphatic and provocative philosophical critic of Emerson that America has yet known.
The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871

The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871

Ralph Waldo Emerson

These final volumes contain some of Emerson's most timelessly relevant work and are sure to engage and inform any reader interested in discovering one of our country's greatest intellectuals.
George Herbert's Pastoral: New Essays on the Poet and Priest ...

George Herbert's Pastoral: New Essays on the Poet and Priest ...

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127–48; and Cristina Malcolmson, George Herbert: A Literary Life (Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), x–xi. 4. To emphasize Herbert's parliamentary career would have meant emphasizing Herbert's clientage to William Herbert ...
The Emerson Dilemma: Essays on Emerson and Social Reform

The Emerson Dilemma: Essays on Emerson and Social Reform

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Stephen L. Esquith's "Power, Poise, and Place: Toward an Emersonian Theory of Democratic Citizenship" explores Emerson's legacy in relation to a resurgence of interest in citizenship among political theorists. By drawing on recent ...
Nineteenth-century Literature Criticism

Nineteenth-century Literature Criticism

Laurie Lanzen Harris

The collected letters of Emerson and Thoreau. Spiller, Robert E. "The Four Faces of Emerson." In Four Makers of the American Mind: Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, and Melville, A Bicentennial Tribute, edited by Thomas Edward Crawley, pp.
The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In 1939 Columbia University Press published the acclaimed first volume of The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, which presented a deeply personal portrait of the real Emerson, previously unknown to the American public.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A new, wide-ranging selection of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s most influential writings, this edition captures the essence of American Transcendentalism and illustrates the breadth of one of America’s greatest philosophers and poets.
The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The occasional "Address on Education," which Emerson delivered between these two series, may be seen as a link between them. Of the twenty-three lectures in this volume, only three have been previously published.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Emerson published his first essay, Nature in 1836. After writing this essay Emerson gave a speech entitled The American Scholar in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes called America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence.
Michael Collins and the Civil War

Michael Collins and the Civil War

T. Ryle Dwyer

In 'Michael Collins and the Civil War', Ryle Dwyer sheds new light on Collins' role in the Civil War, showing how in the weeks and months leading to the campaign he secretly persisted with guerrilla tactics in border areas.
The Dragon in the Sea

The Dragon in the Sea

Frank Herbert

from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Frank Herbert (1920–1986) was a US writer born in Tacoma, Washington, and educated at the University of Washington, Seattle; he was Brian Herbert's father. Herbert worked as a reporter and editor ...
General Register

General Register

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... Ph.D., Visiting Lecturer in English Claude Lester Clark, M.S.E., Ph.D., Lecturer in Metallurgical Engineering (See Faculties) Ralph Lawrence Dewey, A.M., Ph.D. , Lecturer in Economics Herbert William Emerson, B.S.Pharm., M.D., Lecturer in ...
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Introduction by Mary Oliver Commentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry David Thoreau The definitive collection of Emerson’s major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph ...
New Jersey Index of Wills, Inventories, Etc: In the Office ...

New Jersey Index of Wills, Inventories, Etc: In the Office ...

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Herbert, Cornelia H., 13663M. W. 1879. Inv. 1879. Herbert, Cornelius H„ 12908M. Inv. 1872. Herbert, Daniel, 1395-1398M, 1957M. В. Ë, p. 82. W. 1747- Inv. 1747- Herbert, Daniel, 10276M. W. & Cod. 1836. Inv. 1836. Herbert, Daniel, 13948м.
University of Michigan Official Publication

University of Michigan Official Publication

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... Lecturer in Metallurgical Engineering (See Faculties) Ralph Lawrence Dewey, A.M., Ph.D., Lecturer in Economics Herbert William Emerson, B.S.Pharm., M.D., Lecturer in Legal Medicine (See Faculties) Alice Evans. A.M., Special Lecturer in  ...
On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson

On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson

Branka Arsić

In his essay âeoeCompensation,âe Emerson makes a surprising claim: âeoeEvery soul is by this intrinsic necessity quitting its whole system of things, its friends, and home, and laws, and faith, as the shell-fish crawls out of its ...
The Emerson Society Quarterly

The Emerson Society Quarterly

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Such private delight supports Paul Hourihan's thesis that Emerson thought the roles of novel-reader and sage incompatible and chose to hide the one in favor of cultivating the public image of the other. Such ambivalence in his appreciation of  ...
The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism

The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism

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JOSHUA DAVID BELLIN The worst feature in the history of those years, is, that no man spake for the Indian. —Ralph Waldo Emerson (EmCW 11:61) When Emerson delivered these words on September 12, 1835, to commemorate Concord's ...
The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joel Porte

A collection of newly commissioned essays provides a critical introduction to pastor and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A classic collection of critical essays, poems, and letters from one of the greatest minds of nineteenth-century America.
EMERSON

EMERSON

Lawrence BUELL

In this book Lawrence Buell conveys both the style and substance of Emerson's accomplishment--in his conception of America as the transplantation of Englishness into the new world, and in his prodigious work as writer, religious thinker, ...
Ralph Emerson Twitchell Letter to the Secretary of the ...

Ralph Emerson Twitchell Letter to the Secretary of the ...

Ralph Emerson Twitchell

A detailed report on land litigation involving the Pueblo Indians, written as Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States.
The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert

The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert

The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert is the most complete collection of Herbert's short fiction ever assembled-thirty-seven stories originally published between 1952 and 1979, plus one story, "The Daddy Box," that has never been appeared ...

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